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24 February 2021: In the week to 20 February on average 2170 people tested positive each day in Belgium. The figure is up 18% on the week. In the same period on average 119 people were hospitalized, and 34 fatalities were reported. These numbers are down respectively with 1% and 11%. Other bad news was that both Moderna and AstraZeneca adjusted the number of doses they would deliver at the end of this month, which means people aged over 65 now will not receive their first jabs until 22 or 29 March, instead of earlier in the same month, as was initially planned. This starts looking like a never-ending roller coaster, there's times of highs and lows, going slow, going fast… Very frustrating! To keep my sanity intact, I keep picturing Ghent in all its facets. On display today is another mural from Dok Noord – Ghent, Belgium.
14 January 2021: On average during the week to 10 January 2,082 people a day tested positive for coronavirus. The figure is up 28% on the week. It needs to be noted, however, that there was far more testing than during the previous week that included the New Year’s Day holiday. Also, the first case of the South African coronavirus variant, which is thought to be more infectious, has been found in Belgium. Amidst the storm of the resurgent pandemic a rapid roll-out of the vaccine should give us hope. Yesterday the Flemish government announced that its ambition was for everybody to get at least their first jab before next summer. Hope is very good for breakfast but very bad for dinner, so we’re all expecting to see significant progress in the weeks to come. On display today is another seascape from Saturday’s hike in De Haan – De Haan, Belgium.
Fort Lauderdale is a city in the U.S. state of Florida, 28 miles (45 km) north of Miami. It is the county seat of Broward County. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 165,521. It is a principal city of the Miami metropolitan area, which was home to an estimated 6,012,331 people at the 2015 census.
The city is a popular tourist destination, with an average year-round temperature of 75.5 °F (24.2 °C) and 3,000 hours of sunshine per year. Greater Fort Lauderdale which takes in all of Broward County hosted 12 million visitors in 2012, including 2.8 million international visitors. The city and county in 2012 collected $43.9 million from the 5% hotel tax it charges, after hotels in the area recorded an occupancy rate for the year of 72.7 percent and an average daily rate of $114.48. The district has 561 hotels and motels comprising nearly 35,000 rooms. Forty-six cruise ships sailed from Port Everglades in 2012. Greater Fort Lauderdale has over 4,000 restaurants, 63 golf courses, 12 shopping malls, 16 museums, 132 nightclubs, 278 parkland campsites, and 100 marinas housing 45,000 resident yachts.
Fort Lauderdale is named after a series of forts built by the United States during the Second Seminole War. The forts took their name from Major William Lauderdale (1782–1838), younger brother of Lieutenant Colonel James Lauderdale. William Lauderdale was the commander of the detachment of soldiers who built the first fort. However, development of the city did not begin until 50 years after the forts were abandoned at the end of the conflict. Three forts named "Fort Lauderdale" were constructed; the first was at the fork of the New River, the second at Tarpon Bend on the New River between the Colee Hammock and Rio Vista neighborhoods, and the third near the site of the Bahia Mar Marina.
The area in which the city of Fort Lauderdale would later be founded was inhabited for more than two thousand years by the Tequesta Indians. Contact with Spanish explorers in the 16th century proved disastrous for the Tequesta, as the Europeans unwittingly brought with them diseases, such as smallpox, to which the native populations possessed no resistance. For the Tequesta, disease, coupled with continuing conflict with their Calusa neighbors, contributed greatly to their decline over the next two centuries. By 1763, there were only a few Tequesta left in Florida, and most of them were evacuated to Cuba when the Spanish ceded Florida to the British in 1763, under the terms of the Treaty of Paris (1763), which ended the Seven Years' War. Although control of the area changed between Spain, United Kingdom, the United States, and the Confederate States of America, it remained largely undeveloped until the 20th century.
The Fort Lauderdale area was known as the "New River Settlement" before the 20th century. In the 1830s there were approximately 70 settlers living along the New River. William Cooley, the local Justice of the Peace, was a farmer and wrecker, who traded with the Seminole Indians. On January 6, 1836, while Cooley was leading an attempt to salvage a wrecked ship, a band of Seminoles attacked his farm, killing his wife and children, and the children's tutor. The other farms in the settlement were not attacked, but all the white residents in the area abandoned the settlement, fleeing first to the Cape Florida Lighthouse on Key Biscayne, and then to Key West.
The first United States stockade named Fort Lauderdale was built in 1838, and subsequently was a site of fighting during the Second Seminole War. The fort was abandoned in 1842, after the end of the war, and the area remained virtually unpopulated until the 1890s. It was not until Frank Stranahan arrived in the area in 1893 to operate a ferry across the New River, and the Florida East Coast Railroad's completion of a route through the area in 1896, that any organized development began. The city was incorporated in 1911, and in 1915 was designated the county seat of newly formed Broward County.
Fort Lauderdale's first major development began in the 1920s, during the Florida land boom of the 1920s. The 1926 Miami Hurricane and the Great Depression of the 1930s caused a great deal of economic dislocation. In July 1935, an African-American man named Rubin Stacy was accused of robbing a white woman at knife point. He was arrested and being transported to a Miami jail when police were run off the road by a mob. A group of 100 white men proceeded to hang Stacy from a tree near the scene of his alleged robbery. His body was riddled with some twenty bullets. The murder was subsequently used by the press in Nazi Germany to discredit US critiques of its own persecution of Jews, Communists, and Catholics.
When World War II began, Fort Lauderdale became a major US base, with a Naval Air Station to train pilots, radar operators, and fire control operators. A Coast Guard base at Port Everglades was also established.
On July 4, 1961, African Americans started a series of protests, wade-ins, at beaches that were off-limits to them, to protest "the failure of the county to build a road to the Negro beach". On July 11, 1962, a verdict by Ted Cabot went against the city's policy of racial segregation of public beaches.
Today, Fort Lauderdale is a major yachting center, one of the nation's largest tourist destinations, and the center of a metropolitan division with 1.8 million people.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Lauderdale,_Florida
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Originally, the wall was part of an ancient military defensive work. The water system was employed to defend against enemies and formed a pass, hence the name 'Shuiguan', translated as the 'Water Pass'. The wall is built along the mountain contours with stone blocks and grey bricks. There are seven watch towers and one arrow tower. The arrow tower measures 15.63 meters (51 feet) high with an average width of 12 meters (13 yards)
Taken @The Great Wall, Beijing, China
Natural color of large salt lake! Lake Tuz is one of the largest salt lakes in the world and is the second largest lake in Turkey (over 600 square miles) although its average depth is less than two feet! The color in the image results from the angle of the sun, the shallow depth and the high salinity of the water. At times algae turns the lake pink. The lake is located southeast of Ankara and northwest of Konya in a predominately dry region. More than half of the salt used in Turkey comes from the three salt mines on the lake.
nle Lake is a freshwater lake located in the Nyaungshwe Township of Taunggyi District of Shan State, part of Shan Hills in Myanmar (Burma). It is the second largest lake in Myanmar with an estimated surface area of 44.9 square miles (116 km2), and one of the highest at an elevation of 2,900 feet (880 m). During the dry season, the average water depth is 7 feet (2.1 m), with the deepest point being 12 feet (3.7 m), but during the rainy season this can increase by 5 feet (1.5 m).
The watershed area for the lake lies to a large extent to the north and west of the lake. The lake drains through the Nam Pilu or Balu Chaung on its southern end. There is a hot spring on its northwestern shore.
Although the lake is not large, it contains a number of endemic species. Over twenty species of snails and nine species of fish are found nowhere else in the world. Some of these, like the silver-blue scaleless Sawbwa barb, the crossbanded dwarf danio, and the Lake Inle danio, are of minor commercial importance for the aquarium trade. It hosts approximately 20,000 brown and black head migratory seagulls in November, December and January.
In June 2015, it becomes the Myanmar's first designated place of World Network of Biosphere Reserves. It was one of 20 places added at at the Unesco's 27th Man and the Biosphere (MAB) International Coordinating Council (ICC) meeting.
The people of Inle Lake (called Intha), some 70,000 of them, live in four cities bordering the lake, in numerous small villages along the lake's shores, and on the lake itself. The entire lake area is in Nyaung Shwe township. The population consists predominantly of Intha, with a mix of other Shan, Taungyo, Pa-O (Taungthu), Danu, Kayah, Danaw and Bamar ethnicities. Most are devout Buddhists, and live in simple houses of wood and woven bamboo on stilts; they are largely self-sufficient farmers.
Most transportation on the lake is traditionally by small boats, or by somewhat larger boats fitted with single cylinder inboard diesel engines. Local fishermen are known for practicing a distinctive rowing style which involves standing at the stern on one leg and wrapping the other leg around the oar. This unique style evolved for the reason that the lake is covered by reeds and floating plants making it difficult to see above them while sitting. Standing provides the rower with a view beyond the reeds. However, the leg rowing style is only practiced by the men. Women row in the customary style, using the oar with their hands, sitting cross legged at the stern.
In addition to fishing, locals grow vegetables and fruit in large gardens that float on the surface of the lake. The floating garden beds are formed by extensive manual labor. The farmers gather up lake-bottom weeds from the deeper parts of the lake, bring them back in boats and make them into floating beds in their garden areas, anchored by bamboo poles. These gardens rise and fall with changes in the water level, and so are resistant to flooding. The constant availability of nutrient-laden water results in these gardens being incredibly fertile. Rice cultivation is also significant.
Klyde Jones of Average White Band performing at the "Back In The Day" Summerfest, San Jose
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Left to right and top to bottom: winter, spring, summer, and autumn. Each image is made by merging together 50 Flickr photos tagged with the season's name. Each photo comes from a different Flickr user.
Average weight of a Greylag goose: 3.3 kilograms
Average weight of a Great Crested Grebe: 0.9 Kilograms
Clearly a mismatch., and so it proved....
The Grebe easily saw off the goose!
So why all the aggression?
See the next picture for the answer...
10 January 2021: The downward trend in the number of people testing positive for Covid-19 - based on the rolling average for 7 days - has been stopped. 1,776 people tested positive for coronavirus on average each day between 31 December and 6 January, a 10 percent rise on the week. This increase does not come as a surprise. However, there is no reason to panic, experts say. The number of Covid tests is 9 percent up on the week, standing at 30,100 per day. This is because fewer people had themselves tested during the Christmas holidays, and because many returning holiday makers are obliged to take a test when returning from a red zone abroad. Therefore, virologists have suggested that it may be better to look at the number of hospitalisations these days, since these are not subject to changing testing numbers. These numbers are still okay, with an average of 130 patients taken to hospital each day on average between 2 and 8 January. This figure, which is 3 days more recent, is 11 percent down on the week. However, the real test is still coming in the next two weeks, when we will see the full impact of returning tourists and the reopening of our schools. The key question is will it get worse before it will get better. To forget about the Covid saga we went for a long, corona proof, walk on the beach yesterday – De Haan, Belgium.
Fort Lauderdale is a city in the U.S. state of Florida, 25 miles (40 km) north of Miami. It is the county seat of Broward County. As of the 2019 census, the city has an estimated population of 182,437. Fort Lauderdale is a principal city of the Miami metropolitan area, which was home to an estimated 6,198,782 people in 2018.
The city is a popular tourist destination, with an average year-round temperature of 75.5 °F (24.2 °C) and 3,000 hours of sunshine per year. Greater Fort Lauderdale which takes in all of Broward County hosted 12 million visitors in 2012, including 2.8 million international visitors. The city and county in 2012 collected $43.9 million from the 5% hotel tax it charges, after hotels in the area recorded an occupancy rate for the year of 72.7 percent and an average daily rate of $114.48. The district has 561 hotels and motels comprising nearly 35,000 rooms. Forty six cruise ships sailed from Port Everglades in 2012. Greater Fort Lauderdale has over 4,000 restaurants, 63 golf courses, 12 shopping malls, 16 museums, 132 nightclubs, 278 parkland campsites, and 100 marinas housing 45,000 resident yachts.
Fort Lauderdale is named after a series of forts built by the United States during the Second Seminole War. The forts took their name from Major William Lauderdale (1782–1838), younger brother of Lieutenant Colonel James Lauderdale. William Lauderdale was the commander of the detachment of soldiers who built the first fort. However, development of the city did not begin until 50 years after the forts were abandoned at the end of the conflict. Three forts named "Fort Lauderdale" were constructed; the first was at the fork of the New River, the second at Tarpon Bend on the New River between the Colee Hammock and Rio Vista neighborhoods, and the third near the site of the Bahia Mar Marina.
The area in which the city of Fort Lauderdale would later be founded was inhabited for more than two thousand years by the Tequesta Indians. Contact with Spanish explorers in the 16th century proved disastrous for the Tequesta, as the Europeans unwittingly brought with them diseases, such as smallpox, to which the native populations possessed no resistance. For the Tequesta, disease, coupled with continuing conflict with their Calusa neighbors, contributed greatly to their decline over the next two centuries. By 1763, there were only a few Tequesta left in Florida, and most of them were evacuated to Cuba when the Spanish ceded Florida to the British in 1763, under the terms of the Treaty of Paris (1763), which ended the Seven Years' War. Although control of the area changed between Spain, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Confederate States of America, it remained largely undeveloped until the 20th century.
The Fort Lauderdale area was known as the "New River Settlement" before the 20th century. In the 1830s there were approximately 70 settlers living along the New River. William Cooley, the local Justice of the Peace, was a farmer and wrecker, who traded with the Seminole Indians. On January 6, 1836, while Cooley was leading an attempt to salvage a wrecked ship, a band of Seminoles attacked his farm, killing his wife and children, and the children's tutor. The other farms in the settlement were not attacked, but all the white residents in the area abandoned the settlement, fleeing first to the Cape Florida Lighthouse on Key Biscayne, and then to Key West.
The first United States stockade named Fort Lauderdale was built in 1838, and subsequently was a site of fighting during the Second Seminole War. The fort was abandoned in 1842, after the end of the war, and the area remained virtually unpopulated until the 1890s. It was not until Frank Stranahan arrived in the area in 1893 to operate a ferry across the New River, and the Florida East Coast Railroad's completion of a route through the area in 1896, that any organized development began. The city was incorporated in 1911, and in 1915 was designated the county seat of newly formed Broward County.
Fort Lauderdale's first major development began in the 1920s, during the Florida land boom of the 1920s. The 1926 Miami Hurricane and the Great Depression of the 1930s caused a great deal of economic dislocation. In July 1935, an African-American man named Rubin Stacy was accused of robbing a white woman at knife point. He was arrested and being transported to a Miami jail when police were run off the road by a mob. A group of 100 white men proceeded to hang Stacy from a tree near the scene of his alleged robbery. His body was riddled with some twenty bullets. The murder was subsequently used by the press in Nazi Germany to discredit US critiques of its own persecution of Jews, Communists, and Catholics.
When World War II began, Fort Lauderdale became a major US base, with a Naval Air Station to train pilots, radar operators, and fire control, operators. A Coast Guard base at Port Everglades was also established.
On July 4, 1961, African Americans started a series of protests, wade-ins, at beaches that were off-limits to them, to protest "the failure of the county to build a road to the Negro beach". On July 11, 1962, a verdict by Ted Cabot went against the city's policy of racial segregation of public beaches.
Today, Fort Lauderdale is a major yachting center, one of the nation's largest tourist destinations, and the center of a metropolitan division with 1.8 million people.
Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Lauderdale,_Florida
© All Rights Reserved - you may not use this image in any form without my prior permission.
This is not actually want it looks like. The kid is running away form the wave that is about to knock him over. Although the wave dose not look that big but because of the shape of beach its quite easy to dragged back in and as the water is around 5C° 41F° that is not a good thing.
This is form the annual Brighton (UK) Christmas day swim 2011, the conditions where appalling. So bad in fact that the event was official called off but that did not stop approximately 100 people going in watched by thousands. Quite a few needed help getting out. One person needed rescuing by Brighton swimming club members, he walked off the beach to an ambulance but needed help to get there.
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Check out my photos form previous christmas day swims here.
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March 23, 2022: Eight frames in Average Camera Pro during a walk at Pepper Tree Playfield in Newbury Park, California.
Hollywood is a city in Broward County, Florida, located between Fort Lauderdale and Miami. The average temperature is between 68 and 83 degrees. As of July 1, 2015 Hollywood has a population of 149,728. Founded in 1925, the city grew rapidly in the 1950s and 1960s, and is now the twelfth largest city in Florida. Hollywood is a principal city of the Miami metropolitan area, which was home to an estimated 6,012,331 people at the 2015 census.
Joseph W. Young founded the city in 1925. He dreamed of building a motion picture colony on the East Coast of the United States and named the town after Hollywood, California. Young bought up thousands of acres of land around 1920, and named his new town "Hollywood by the Sea" to distinguish it from his other real estate venture, "Hollywood in the Hills", in New York
Young had a vision of having lakes, golf courses, a luxury beach hotel, country clubs, and a main street, Hollywood Boulevard. After the 1926 Miami hurricane, Hollywood was severely damaged; local newspapers reported that Hollywood was second only to Miami in losses from the storm. Following upon Young's death in 1934, the city encountered more terrific hurricanes and not only that, but the stock market crashed with personal financial misfortunes. It felt as though the city was tumbling slowly piece by piece with all of those tragic events taking place.
Hollywood is a planned city. On Hollywood Boulevard is the Mediterranean-style Joseph Young Mansion, built around 1921, making it one of the oldest houses in Hollywood.
Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
This is the biggest and most dramatic of Iceland's geyser.It blows every 6-7 minutes on average but this can vary.
That was the average I saw quoted on a tide-time site for East Fife. From the shore it looked less, but from past experience I knew that having your feet on dry land always shrinks apparent wave heights... When your boat is at the nadir of the wave trough and you've lost sight of land till the following swell rides your boat up to the next crest, those waves look like boat eaters and every mile separating you from home harbour seems to take an hour to be covered, the moment of crossing the bar and feeling the deck level out under your feet - is welcome beyond compare.
Before I forget - the bird's a winter-plumaged Black Headed Gull. In the glow of the afternoon sunshine their legs and bills looked strongly orange, not the deep red I'm more used to seeing. Fooled me into thinking the storm had blown a fleet of different birds ashore from those normally seen.
19 January 2021: The 7-day rolling average for people testing positive for the virus stabilizes and the number of people being hospitalised with the virus continues to fall slowly but surely. The same is true of the number of people with the virus that are dying. On average during the week to 15 January 2,017 people a day tested positive for the coronavirus, that is down 1% on the week. Meanwhile, several outbreaks of the British mutation of the virus have been reported. In one case it has been confirmed that the source of the infection is people that had travelled during the Christmas holiday and not stuck to the rules concerning quarantine on their return. The result is that thousands are quarantined due to the negligence by a few. The question of how to keep out more contagious coronavirus variants of the virus is what is now preoccupying the country’s politicians. Waiting for the beneficial seasonal impact on the spread of the virus and the effect from groups immunity via people who have had the virus and via vaccinations I continue my corona walks. On display today is a pleasing urban alignment that I pictured alongside the river Scheldt – Ghent, Belgium.
The average for the month of November in Gothenburg is 58 hours of sunlight. It may not sound like much, but so far this year the sun shone very small - just over seven hours. This report P4 Gothenburg who studied the statistics from SMHI.
Gothenburg may be heading for a new record. The sun has been absent in November and has only been reached in 7.2 hours. In Stockholm it is even darker with two hours of sunshine.
As I live in the south of my country, our average temperature is about 30-35 degrees C (summer all the time lol), but I love the fact that we are near our beautiful mountains (45 minutes driving), with pine tress, fog and with a temperature between 18-25 degrees, and if we want to go to the beach, just drive 30 minutes and there we are! enjoying our Pacific Ocean!! So I always say, we are so blessed here! :)
Thank you in advance for your visit. Cheers from Honduras!
Mis amadas montanas del Sur
Como yo vivo en el sur de mi pais, nuestra temperatura promedio anda entre 30-35 grados C (todo el tiempo es verano), pero me encanta el hecho que estamos tan cerca de nuestras montanas, con arboles de pino, neblina y con una temperatura entre 18-25 grados C, si queremos ir a la playa, solo manejamos 30 minutos y ahi estamos! disfrutando nuestro Oceano Pacifico!! Siempre digo, que somos muy bendecidos aca!
Gracias de antemano por su visita, saludos desde Honduras! :)
It rained again here on the Central Coast of California. We only need six more inches this month and we'll (we) be average.
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A deposit of copper bearing ore 14km southeast of Duchess at Trekelano was exploited by the Hampden Co for use at its Kuridala smelter. The ore body was one of the richer ones in the Cloncurry area, averaging around 13% copper and lesser amount of silver and gold. Trekelano ore was particularly valuable as a smelting aid.
The deposit was first worked in about 1906 in a small way, mostly for development work, and gradually increased its output of economical volumes by 1915. In time, the mine was equipped with a semi-marine type Babcock & Wilcox boiler, a Walker geared winding engine, Fraser & Chambers compressor, electric light from a 40hp Hornsby gas engine and wood producer, a picking plant, and ore bins. Narrow gauge tramways were used to move the ore to the dumps to the loading state and to fart firewood to the boiler house. Associated facilities were a change room, an engine room, a boiler shed, magazines, offices, stores, and staff quarters. At its peak, the mine employed 60 men. A school and post office were provided from 1918 and these remained viable until 1928.
When the railway was extended from Malbon to Duchess, the company began sending Trekelano ore to Duchess using a traction engine and wagons. This arrangement was not satisfactory in the long term so as soon as the railway was extended from Duchess to Dajarra, the company immediately took steps to lay a connecting tramway. The link was 12.3km in length.
The line was funded and built by the company under the Tramways Act. Engineering specifications were based on QR standards but were more economical in regard to the road bed and ballasting. The company sourced the rails and sleepers from QR and secured them on time payment based on a rebate from a premium placed on every ton carried. The company also paid the line maintenance fees.
Construction commenced on the 10th of September 1917 some 7.5km from Duchess at 553 miles and 21 chains, later known as Juenburra. Accommodation comprised a loop siding on the left from which was laid the branch proper which consisted of a curve to the southeast where another loop was placed on the right. From here the line continued southeast to the mine, which was 130 rail kilometres from Cloncurry.
A passenger service was offered but it was minimally supported because the Trekelano community had a road coach service to Duchess station. The coach departed Duchess at 7am on Monday and Friday for a same day return. Passenger rail journeys were around 200 per year to 1921 and then tailed off to virtually nothing, ceasing altogether soon after.
From 1941 the train day became a Monday and was worked by the Cloncurry-Dajarra-Cloncurry weekly mixed running on a Sunday-Monday overnight rest schedule. Ore loadings had dropped by half at this time to around 3500 tons due to shortages of labour and machinery spare parts. One train a week sufficed. Loadings diminished even further to less then 2000 tons by 1943. The mine closed that year and the train service ceased at this time. A small community remained until the end, and this included several school aged children who were driven to Duchess each day for their education.
The mine owners retired to the coast and after the war put the mine and tramway on the market. There were no takers for the assets as a going concern so the plant was sold for scrap. The rails were purchased by the North Eton Sugar Mill and were removed by 1947. The telephone pole line was dismantled at the same time. The sleepers had no value and were left in situ. The official closure of the tramway is the 14th of May 1947.
The original Trekelano mine produced 220 000 tons of ore over its lifetime to yield 20 000 tons of copper and 3000 oz of gold. In the 1990s the site was gone over by the drivers of Mineral Commodities NL to locate and estimated 400 000 tonnes of 2.2% copper and 0.6 grams/tonne of gold. The deposit was reopened in 2005 by Osborne Mines and worked as a massive pit, this development swallowing the remains of the original mine and tramway. The Trekelano ore was carted to a concentrating plant at Mount Osborne, south of Selwyn, and the treated ore despatched by rail through to Phosphate Hill.
The mine is no longer in use.
Source: Copper in the Curry by Norman Houghton.
Trincomali Channel, Gulf Islands,
North Galiano, British Columbia, Canada
MMSI: 316018117,
Flag: Canada [CA],
AIS Vessel Type: Pleasure Craft,
Length Overall x Breadth Extreme: 23m × 6m
Draught 2.5m,
Speed recorded (Max / Average) 20 / 17.4 knots,
That's an average of about 260 views per image.
Thanks to all my flickr contacts for pushing me over the million views mark. I've made some really great friends and contacts on flickr and a there is not a day that goes by that I don't check flickr first thing in the morning and last thing before I go to bed (and as often as possible in between) to see what you all are up to.
I've learned a lot from all the other photographers on flickr and I've been inspired to try new things and expand my skills more than a few times by my flickr friends and I thank you for that.
Happy new year to all my great flickr friends.
Though not large, standing an average 60"/150cm, these creatures are quite strong. With powerful goat-like legs and long heavily muscled arms, it is no wonder that their weapons of choice are heavy clubs and bludgeons.
Eschewing the precision aim and strikes that are needed by edged weapons, the Skull Warder flail wildly with great effect. Their blows can break shields and shatter bones.
Their culture is made up of warring clans and the youth are trained early in combat. The mortality rate is exceptionally high with less than twenty percent of they youth reaching adulthood. For those that do, the signature rite of passage is when the new adult will present the skull of one of their victims to the clan chief. The youth will have carefully cleaned, shaped and weathered the skull so that fit securely over the face and have maximum intimidating appearance.
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Sea lions are pinnipeds characterized by external ear flaps, long foreflippers, the ability to walk on all fours, short, thick hair, and a big chest and belly. Together with the fur seals, they comprise the family Otariidae, eared seals, which contains six extant and one extinct species (the Japanese sea lion) in five genera. Their range extends from the subarctic to tropical waters of the global ocean in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, with the notable exception of the northern Atlantic Ocean. They have an average lifespan of 20–30 years. A male California sea lion weighs on average about 300 kg (660 lb) and is about 2.4 m (8 ft) long, while the female sea lion weighs 100 kg (220 lb) and is 1.8 m (6 ft) long. The largest sea lion is Steller's sea lion, which can weigh 1,000 kg (2,200 lb) and grow to a length of 3.0 m (10 ft). Sea lions consume large quantities of food at a time and are known to eat about 5–8% of their body weight (about 6.8–15.9 kg (15–35 lb)) at a single feeding. Sea lions can move around 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph) in water and at their fastest they can reach a speed of about 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph). Three species, the Australian sea lion, the Galápagos sea lion and the New Zealand sea lion, are listed as endangered. 61535
We chose a very sunny, but hot and humid, day to visit the Tower of London. If I was uncomfortable in my casual clothes, the poor Yeoman Warders and the Guards must have been melting. But they are professionals and just get on with it. I, however, complained like a Premier League footballer who thought he had been fouled in the box even though no one had been with 2 yards of him. And yes, I did roll around on the floor in a fit of melodramatic overacting.
As for the snap, it was a bit of a team effort:
-My wife spotted the opportunity
-My mini-me composed and took the shot
-I did some edits in Photoshop
I kind of like how my son composed this quirky shot as it breaks most of the established “rules” of composition. Well, that’s what you get if you see the world with 9-year old eyes.
Equipment: Nikon 1 S2, 1 Nikkor 11-27.5mm @27.5mm. ISO 200, F5.6, 1/500sec
Post-production: Some masked curves to balance local exposure and contrast. Overall partial desaturation, with the red in the uniforms masked out. Sharpened
Simple size comparison of your average battlemech, medium - heavy - assault ranging from 50 tons, 75 tons, 100 tons
Modular bookshop in the background for scale
Really need to bust out the DSLR to take some pics of new and updated builds
Great Egret
Diet: Carnivore
Average life span in the wild: 15 years
Size: Body, 37 to 41 inches; Wingspan, 4.3 to 4.8 ft
Weight: 2.2 lbs
FOOD FOR THOUGHT:
~Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
~Be courageous, It’s the only place left uncrowded
~When your mind says give up, hope whispers, one more try.
~Be someone you would be proud to know.
~Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, its about learning how to dance in the rain.
~The meaning of life, gives life meaning
~Tell those around you that you love them, you may not get another chance.
~All kids are gifted; some just open their packages earlier than others.
~The price of discipline is always less than the pain of regret
~Do not ask God to guide your footsteps, if your not willing to move your feet : )
"God rides across the heavens to help you across the skies in majestic splendor" Deuteronomy 33:26 (He's just waiting for you to ask ; )
Make it a great day! : )
It is a medium-sized francolin with males averaging 11.6–13.4 in (29–34 cm) and females averaging 10.2–11.9 in (26–30 cm). The males weigh 9–12 oz (260–340 g) whereas the weight of the females is 7–11 oz (200–310 g). The francolin is barred throughout and the face is pale with a thin black border to the pale throat. The only similar species is the painted francolin, which has a rufous vent. The male can have up to two spurs on the legs while females usually lack them. Subspecies mecranensis is palest and found in arid north-western India, Eastern Pakistan and Southern Iran. Subspecies interpositus is darker and intermediate found in northern India. The nominate race in the southern peninsula of India has populations with a darker rufous throat, supercilium and is richer brown. They are weak fliers and fly short distances, escaping into undergrowth after a few spurts of flight. In flight it shows a chestnut tail and dark primaries. The race in Sri Lanka is sometimes given the name ceylonensis or considered as belonging to the nominate.
On a typical day, Where I'm standing is full of cars and if I was standing where I was, I'd be run over.
However this day is not your average day, and 6167 is not your average vehicle.
6167 was moved from its home near Guelph Central Station to John Galt Park, to make way for expansions at the station.
6167 was built in 1940 for the Canadian National Railway. It travlled over 1 million miles in its lifetime and after being retired was brought back to run excursion trains for the Canadian National. It was in excursion service from 1960 to 1964, when it was retired for good. In 1967 it was donated to the city of Guelph, where it has remained on display ever since.
This picture was taken from far away.
Kivu and Goma form their own bachelor troop here in Santa Barbara. The Santa Barbara Zoo is one of several institutions that are keeping gorilla bachelor troops successfully!
Kivu, DOB 8/18/91; Goma, DOB 3/31/91.
Kivu is 5 ft., 7 in./450 lbs., and Goma is 5 ft., 4 in./380 lbs. (as of 1/2012)
Average Lifespan: Up to 50 years.
Diet: Gorillas are vegetarians and eat plants, vegetables, and fruits.
Geography: Central Africa, near the mouth of the Congo River.
Conservation Status: Critically Endangered.
Western Lowland gorilla. Santa Barbara Zoo. California.
The average length is 16–20 mm with males being smaller than females.
This insect is common in its native range along the temperate and warmer regions of the Pacific coast of North America and has steadily expanded eastwards. On its native continent, L. occidentalis has been located as far northeast as Nova Scotia.
In Europe, this species was first reported in 1999 from northern Italy, Germany and Hungary; in 2003.
Now I found this species in my garden in the middle of Germany.